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by joshuaissac 7mo ago
Inflation is about what goes on inside the country. So you can have inflation internally while the domestic currency strengthens against foreign currencies, and vice versa. If your currency is falling against foreign currencies but prices a
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by joshuaissac 7mo ago
The mathematical field of tackling number theory problems in this way is called analytic number theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_number_theory The prime number theorem, on how prime numbers are distribute
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by joshuaissac 7mo ago
If first-order hybrids made up only a small proportion of the total population of humans and Neanderthals, then the probability that a pairing between a member of a modern human tribe and a member of a Neanderthal tribe would involve a firs
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by joshuaissac 7mo ago
Or Neanderthal women lived with their tribe and their hybrid children died with that Neanderthal tribe, whereas modern human women and their hybrid children (or at least the ones who have living descendants) lived with modern human tribes a
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by joshuaissac 7mo ago
That was something else entirely. Not for scripting but to write compiled ActiveX browser add-ons.
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by joshuaissac 7mo ago
It was Wingdings. But they do use Unicode emojis now.
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by joshuaissac 7mo ago
Internet Explorer used to support any language that Windows Script Host could run. By default, that was JScript and VBScript, but there were third-party engines for Python, Perl, Ruby, Lua, and many others. Possibly disabled now as they ann
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
> short-lived Outlook was doing this even 3-4 years ago.
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
And how many of them are using desktop Linux?
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
According to their site, they used to support Samsung a long time ago but Samsung made changes in newer handsets that closed off access to the secure element.
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
> Oppression would be quite impossible throughout history if people weren't willing to oppress their own kind to the benefit of others. Isn't the opposite far more common? When oppression happens, it is typically people oppress
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
If all of your scripts run in the same venv (for a given user), can you inject that into the PATH and rely on env just finding the right interpreter? I suppose it would also need env to be able to handle paths that have spaces in them.
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
My reading of their comment is that a proof space is a concept where a human guesses that a proof of some form q exists, and the AI searches a space S(q) where most points may be not valid proofs, but if there is a valid proof, it will hope
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
English version: https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/m...
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
Something strange I noticed with the Malayalam course (maybe also other languages with a non-Latin script): when a word is shown, two Latin transliterations are shown underneath. The second one looks like an IAST or ISO-15919 transliteratio
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
AI-generated code is meant for the machine, or for the author/prompter. AI-generated text is typically meant for other people. I think that makes a meaningful difference.
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
Following Postel's law results in the normalisation and proliferation of defective implementations. The actual standard becomes irrelevant, and new implementations have to be coded against the defective ones. My opinion is that Postel&
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by joshuaissac 8mo ago
> FIPS-compliant bindings (OpenSSL) Using FIPS mode can be insecure because the latest FIPS-compliant version can be years older than the latest non-FIPS one with all the updates. The only time it makes sense to use the FIPS version is w
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by joshuaissac 9mo ago
You can also sponsor the development of Neovim. The money goes to funding developers. https://neovim.io/sponsors/
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by joshuaissac 9mo ago
Reverse model aimed at estate agents already posted in this thread by someone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829566
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by joshuaissac 10mo ago
> nope. You should look at https://docs.docker.com/engine/network/ That page does not address rootless Docker, which can be installed (not just run) without root, so it would not have the ability to clobber fir
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
> NC law. Does it have an "invitation to treat" practice [...] rather than a legally-binding offer? Are there any common-law jurisdictions in the world where having products on sale in a supermarket is not generally conside
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
There must be so many subtle features like these that people use subconsciously, and when they try to move to another operating system, they try it, nothing happens and they get frustrated.
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
> website probably went under new ownership According to the article, it was the founder himself who was doing this.
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
> in the context of today’s highly controlled platforms that simply don’t make space for users to customize or do anything outside the platform directly There is Roblox, which is popular with kids and lets them upload minigames written i
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
> The EU is undemocratic EU Members of Parliament for the UK were elected via proportional representation, whereas Westminster MPs are elected via the comparatively undemocratic first-past-the-post system, where a party with 14% of the n
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
Is this really a problem with Apple? Phones other than iPhones can still share files with each other and with computers using Bluetooth. But people instead use apps like WhatsApp or e-mail for file transfers, even in places where iPhone&#x2
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
Until reading this thread, I had no idea that iPhones did not support Bluetooth for file transfer. I had expected comments like "we can do this with an entry-level phone via Bluetooth already". On the other hand, with the ubiquity
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
Some handsets do not connect to secondary networks for emergency calls without the update that fixes the problem. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/samsung-mobile-device...
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by joshuaissac 11mo ago
> Rolling out fiber nationwide [...] would have been catastrophically expensive It seems like they had managed to bring the cost below copper: > In 1986, I managed to get fibre to the home cheaper than copper > we had two factories

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